3. An amount which is taken as an average or mean. [Eng.]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

4. (Golf) The number of strokes required for a hole or a
round played withoutmistake, two strokes being allowed on
each hole for putting. Par represents perfect play,
whereas {bogey} makes allowance on some holes for human
frailty. Thus if par for a course is 75, bogey is usually
put down, arbitrarily, as 81 or 82. If par for one hole is
5, a {bogey} is 6, and a score of 7 strokes would be a
{double bogey}.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

Par — Par, prep. [F., fr. L. per. See {Per}.] By; with; used frequently in Early English in phrases taken from the French, being sometimes written as a part of the word which it governs; as, par amour, or paramour; par cas, or parcase; par fay, or… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

par — I. noun Etymology: Latin, one that is equal, from par equal Date: 1622 1. a. the established value of the monetary unit of one country expressed in terms of the monetary unit of another country using the same metal as the standard of value b. the … New Collegiate Dictionary